In a series of tweets, the minister put a full stop to the controversy.

Minister Prakash Javadekar made a speech that could be the biggest blooper in the Indian history had it not been for a full stop.

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We are all familiar with those grammar memes that show up on our Facebook timelines, reminding us like schoolmarms to mind our commas and full stops. You know, the difference between, "Let's eat grandma!" and "Let's eat, grandma!"

Yesterday, Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar made a blooper in a speech but then saved himself, all thanks to a full stop.

While paying homage to those who fought for India's Independence, Javadekar said, "We salute our freedom fighters. So many bravehearts -- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Sardar Patel, Pandit Nehru, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, all who were hanged, revolutionary Savarkarji and all other great fighters."

Pandit Nehru died of illness after serving for 17 years as independent India's first Prime Minister. Sardar Patel, who served as the first Home Minister of free India, also died of natural causes. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose is said to have died in a plane crash on 18 August, 1945, in Taiwan, though some contest this claim.

"There was no confusion in the minds of those who listened,"Javadekar said. What he meant was that we should not emulate the panda in the book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves who read the badly punctuated wildlife manual, then went to a café, ate a sandwich, drew a gun and shot the other patrons there.